Question

Before after mountains based on cleanliness

Answer 1

We believe the spirit of trekking is incomplete without the immense love and respect for mountain environment. Our trek leader Gurdit talks about why keeping our mountains clean is of paramount importance.
Mountains are foe to none and friends to all. They are not just soil, forests, birds, animals and snow; they provide us with necessities to sustain life. Mountains are also generous sources of pleasure and delight, rest and recreation. The joy of watching the sunrise and sunset on snow-capped mountains with fellow trekkers cannot be matched. Not even by winning a lottery ticket!

However, from the way we are littering our mountains and their rivers, we seem to have taken them for granted. It is disheartening to see a huge dump of garbage on the slopes.

For me as a trekker, littering has a different meaning. If we are not bringing back our non-biodegradable things- plastic bottles, wrappers, foils etc- back to cities, we are littering the mountains. Just putting them in dustbins is not enough. In most of the mountain villages, there is no proper system to handle the garbage. They just burn or throw it into the streams, which is not a good practice.

I don’t expect city-dwellers to come and clean all the mess in mountains. But I do expect them to not litter. That alone can be instrumental in cleaning up of the mountains.